SIR – The letter from John Anderson (T&A letters, April 9) highlights the Media Museum problems.

The majority of the 45,000 who signed the petition to keep it open, which your reporter Will Kilner took to London, do not feel that it is worth a visit because it is not widely known just how good the the exhibitions and films actually are.

Rather than catering primarily for the Bradford “intelligentsia”, general appeal would be enhanced should ancillary facilities be more welcoming and affordable.

The picnic area should be supplemented by the self service facility to buy ready to eat food and drink at Aldi prices, the cafe and bar should be hived off to a Wetherspoon’s franchise, the gift shop must be a dead loss at London prices. If run by Pound Shop would do a roaring trade.

The free city bus having a stop in the frontage would link it to the bus and train stations. Finally, don’t get people’s backs up by charging for answering the phone. Until the MM becomes integral to Bradford and not London, it will not be viable.

John Pashley Westcliffe Avenue, Baildon